Contact

Commercial enquiries: mail@surolab.com

Books & Print Editions: info@lenaemery.com

IG: lena_c_emery

 

Lena C. Emery is a London based photographer and environmentalist. Greatly influenced by her itinerant upbringing between Europe and Asia, Emery’s work speaks to a renewed and poetic re-imagination of the symbiotic exchange between humanity and nature.

 

In 2021 Emery was selected Decade of Change Award Winner, a global environmental initiative to galvanise climate action by the BJP.

 

As a certified open water and dry suit diver, Emery has created a portfolio of over 100 marine photographs in an effort to underscore the critical need for marine protected areas. In the mid 90s Emery’s father co-established Wakatobi, a Dive Resort and Collaborative Reef Conservation Program within the Tukang Besi Archipelago, which at the time turned 6km of privately sponsored reef sanctuaries into an effective no-fishing zone. By 2002 the success of ongoing efforts set a precedent for human rights based conservation, leading the Indonesian government to expand the area to over 1.39 million hectares and creating what is known today as Wakatobi National Park. In 2012 it was added to the list of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves, recognising it as one of the most biodiverse marine habitats with the highest number of reef and fish species in the world.

Books

“Rie”(Monograph), published by Kominek Books; “Yuka & The Forest” (Monograph), published by Art Paper Edition; “Still Life”, published by Gestalten; “Posturing: Photographing the Body In Fashion”, published by MACK; “The Overview”, published by Atmos

 

“When I first picked up Rie, I immediately knew this wasn’t an ordinary book of nudes. This openness creates pictures much like a breath of fresh air.”– Todd Hido

 

“Emery’s images (Yuka & The Forest) show a place that is some distance from the entrenched view of humans as subject and the world as an object, and offer a renewed perception of symbiosis.”– Kris Kozlowski Moore

 

Exhibiting Galleries  

Frieze No 9 Cork Street London, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art London,  The Nest Summit New York, Asama International Photo Festival Miyota,  Museum of Climate Change Hong Kong, Claire de Rouen London

 

Publications

Atmos, British Vogue, Dazed, M Le Monde, Pleasure Garden, Pop, Purple, System, The Gentlewoman, The Plant, Wallpaper, WSJ

 

Nominations & Awards

Nominated for the FOAM Paul Huf Award 2015, UK Winners of Flash Forward Award 2016, Winner Decade of Change Award 2021, Nominated for Prix du Livre d’Auteur Arles

 

Clients

Calvin Klein, Chanel, Chloe, Dior, Burberry, Helmut Lang, Hermes, Lemaire, Stella McCartney, Tiffany & Co